The Picasso Year closes with a major exhibition at the Reina Sofía in Madrid

2023-11-14 06:04:53

More than 120 works from private collections and museums such as MoMA, the MET, the Louvre o The meadowform the exhibition that opens today at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid that analyzes the year 1906 as the year of the great transformation of Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

A decisive stage in the career of the Malaga painter that can be seen in “Picasso 1906. The great transformation”, an exhibition that It will be open to the public from this Wednesday until March 4 and which will close the official program of international exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish genius.

The Kings of SpainFelipe and Letizia, will inaugurate the exhibitionfocused on that 1906 in which Picasso’s first contribution to modern art took place, and which also reflects the artist’s homoerotic sensitivity.

The exhibition aims to be a re-reading of the artist and renew the criteria on the key role that Picasso played. in the creation of modern art, since it is common to consider that his main contribution in this sense was ‘The Young Ladies of Avignon’ in 1907.

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“‘The Young Ladies of Avignon’ has been exaggerated with respect to its contribution to modernity,” according to the curator of the exhibition, Eugenio Carmona, for whom 1906 was when Picasso transformed the concept of “nude” into that of “body” and gave a relevant role to the male.

For the first time in Picasso’s work the presence of homoeroticism is decisive and the paintings that can be seen in the exhibition are full of “aesthetic vitalism” and a relationship with the body with “erotic kindness.”

A time when The artist’s relationship with gays who assume their condition “is not anecdotal”. Then and later in other periods, Picasso converts male figures into female ones and vice versa “in the blink of an eye”, which shows that “gender fluidity” is in the artist.

Transculturality is another of the features present in this exhibition dedicated to that transformative year of the artist, which He also then carried out a rereading of the history of art through El Greco, Corot and Cezanne.and already assimilated the so-called “black art”, a relationship that is shown at the Reina Sofía with a selection of pieces from different periods of European and African art.